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The World is Quiet Here

“I’d Cut Down Every Law…”

22 June 2018 Annual, Church and State, Divine Office, History, Meditations, Moments in Time, Prayer, Saints

Hans Holbein the Younger: Sir Thomas More

Today is the memorial of one of my favourite saints, Saint Thomas More, who died at the hands of King Henry VIII (that villain). That is, today is his memorial in the modern Roman calendar, which he shares with Saint John Fisher, also executed by the same king. In my Benedictine ordo, however, it is no such thing – you’d […]

We Walk by Faith

06 June 2018 Camino, community, Francine my love, Fun, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Moments in Time, Rev. Caleb Insco F.S.S.P., Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, Saint Joseph Parish in Tacoma, The Sacred Liturgy

Last weekend, my beautiful bride Francine and I did some walking, and it got me to thinking about the spirituality of walking. I’m always amazed at what you can accomplish by walking. Modern psychologists say that walking makes us smarter, but the idea is hardly original to them. Solvitur ambulando – It is solved by walking. (Saint Augustine) This is […]

Corpus Christi

31 May 2018 Annual, community, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, Saint Joseph Parish in Tacoma, The Sacred Liturgy

This coming Sunday my parish will participate in an outdoor Procession of the Blessed Sacrament following the Noon Mass. This will be the sixth year we’ve taken Jesus through the streets of Tacoma and amongst His people. Our interim priest, Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, will celebrate the Noon Mass of Corpus Christi at the high altar, and eleven children of […]

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

31 May 2018 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, inside baseball, Latin, Mary, Prayer, Rants

Mary’s month of May draws to a close with the Feast of the Visitation. This feast celebrates the visit of Mary, pregnant with Jesus, to her cousin Elizabeth, pregnant with John the Baptist (Luke 1:39-56). So this feast is a celebration of the very first Christian community, consisting of two pregnant mothers and their unborn children. Saint Luke’s account culminates […]

Changes, 2018

20 May 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, Deacon James Fish, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, Rev. Martin Bourke, The Sacred Liturgy

It seems like lately, we’re doing this every year. As was announced at the Masses this weekend, Holy Rosary and Visitation Parishes in Tacoma are getting a new pastoral team. Instead of a single priest, however, we’re getting a deacon and a priest, and their roles are not what you might expect. The Most Rev. J. Peter Sartain is appointing […]

The Vigil of Pentecost

19 May 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, The Sacred Liturgy

Tomorrow is Pentecost, the great solemnity celebrating the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. The Church has long celebrated this event in three ways: the solemnity of the day itself, the octave of the day, and the vigil. With the liturgical reforms of the 1960s and 1970s, all but the day itself was suppressed, a sad testament to […]

Funeral Mass

10 May 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg, Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, community, Deacon Mike Teskey, Francine my love, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Moments in Time, Rev. Caleb Insco F.S.S.P., Rev. Kyle Mangloña, Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy, Very Rev. Gary Zender

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Lacrimosa Dies Illa

05 May 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, Chant, community, Divine Office, Francine my love, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Moments in Time, Rev. Caleb Insco F.S.S.P., Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

The Reverend Michael Wagner passed to God in the early morning hours of May 2, 2018. Since then, we’ve been caught in the whirlwind of planning and work, with hardly a moment to take it all in. On the night of his death, our parishes came together to chant Solemn Vespers from the Office for the Dead. Rev. Nicholas Wichert, […]

Feast of the Holy Abbots of Cluny

29 April 2018 Annual, Divine Office, History, Prayer, Saints

Were it not Sunday, today would be the (combined) feast of four great Abbots of the Benedictine Order: Saints Odo, Majolus, Odilo, and Hugh. They were all good and holy men, and during the course of their reigns over the Abbey of Cluny and its associated priories, they reformed western monasticism – indeed, it could be fairly said that together […]

Exult!

31 March 2018 Annual, Chant, Holy Days, Prayer, The Sacred Liturgy

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Maundy Thursday:
Do This in Memory of Me

29 March 2018 Annual, Chant, Holy Days, Polyphony, Prayer, The Sacred Liturgy

The Season of Lent comes to its end this evening, as we celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. This celebration commemorates the institution of the Eucharist, the source and summit of Church life. Unlike most Protestants, the Catholic and Orthodox (and others of the Apostolic Tradition) believe that God is really there, wholly present in the consecrated bread and […]

Hosanna to the Son of David!

23 March 2018 Annual, Holy Days, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

This weekend, Holy Week begins with the Sunday of Lord’s triumphal entry into Jersusalem – Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion. Although Good Friday is coming – the Passion and Death are coming – for the moment, this moment, joy resounds as our King arrives in His city. In most parishes throughout the world, the principal Mass is celebrated by […]

Schedule for Holy Week

22 March 2018 Chant, community, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, OCIA, Prayer, Rev. Michael Wagner, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

The following is the Holy Week schedule for the parishes of Holy Rosary and Visitation in Tacoma, Washington. It’s less jam-packed than previous years, but there’s still a lot here! Wednesday Tenebræ is not to be missed. And of course, the Holy Triduum is essentially one giant liturgy (with some serious overnight breaks) that begins with the Introit of the […]

Tenebræ

22 March 2018 Chant, community, Divine Office, Holy Days, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

San Xulián de Samos

21 March 2018 Camino, Divine Office, Saints

Although it no longer appears on the Universal (Roman) calendar, today is one of two feasts of Saint Benedict celebrated by Benedictines throughout the world. This is the day in the year 547 when Saint Benedict of Norcia died. Saint Benedict is generally considered the founder of western monasticism, and his Rule spread throughout the west as the Roman Empire […]

Pope Saint Gregory the Great

12 March 2018 Chant, History, Saints, The Sacred Liturgy

Only a handful of Popes ever get named “Great”. Today on my Benedictine Ordo is the feast of one of them, Pope Saint Gregory the Great, confessor and doctor of the Church (540 – 604). Gregory had been born into an ancient and wealthy Roman family. Before he was 30 years old, he had been a Roman Senator and then […]

Lenten Vespers

02 March 2018 Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Seasons

If you live in the area, please join us as we celebrate Vespers every Sunday during Lent at 6:00 pm at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Tacoma.

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